Students from Investigator College, Victor Harbor, were recently treated to a series of hands-on education sessions about turtles, snakes and fish at the Currency Creek EcoCentre. Students learnt about the adaptations of reptiles as part of their Term 1 Biological Sciences unit. During the excursion...
We recently held the final two workshops in a series at Hutt Bay; one on local Aboriginal culture and the second an intertidal reef exploration.First up, on Friday the 11th of March, we hosted Aunty Michelle for two sessions on Boandik customs, first with students...
One of the great challenges in trying to understand how long-term gradual change (caused by drivers like climate) is impacting on the biodiversity of a region, is being able to afford and carry out the monitoring required to obtain the data that shows what is...
We're very excited about the next event in our workshop series centred around Hutt Bay: this time we'll be learning about the area's Boandik cultural heritage with Aunty Michelle Jacquelin-Furr.Back in 2018 we worked with Aunty Michelle in ForestrySA's biodiversity schools program in which...
Since the early days of NGT, environmental education has been an integral part of what we do. We have worked both on a once-off basis and developed longer-term programs with local primary and secondary schools in South Australia and Victoria to help students learn more...
Our first activities at Walker Swamp this year are going to be truly amazing. The project involves two local schools working together: Hamilton Parklands School - a school for children with intellectual disabilities, that supports and prepares students to become active and engaged members of...
Late last year we kicked off a three-year environmental and cultural education program with Newbery Park Primary School of Millicent, South Australia. NGT is running the majority of activities and hosting many at our reserves, with other activities to be led by First Nations Elders...
Late spring and early summer is a great time to get outdoors and our environmental education events have continued over the past few weeks, through our wetland science program with Grant High School. In classroom sessions, year 9 science students were introduced to the function...
Over the past month we have continued our Hutt Bay workshops and working bees project with a rockpool ramble at Cape Douglas and aquatic macro-invertebrates (aka water bugs) at Hutt Bay.A community rockpool ramble was held at Cape Douglas where we were joined by some...
Over the past month we've been busy with a whole heap of environmental education events around the South East, from Eaglehawk in the north to Hutt Bay in the south.On 5th November, thanks to the support of the Coast Protections Board’s Community Participation Grant, I...
